“Obviously we’re thrilled to have won Sprints twice,” Riffelmacher said. “The varsity’s loss puts a bit of a damper on our feelings, but those guys just rowed their heart out and came up a little bit short.”

Earlier, the freshman eight—seeded second—pulled in a title in 5:51.39, ahead of Brown’s 5:54.98. Yale finished third while top-seed Princeton fell to fourth.

Traditionally, boats that earn Eastern titles are also awarded the option of racing in the Henley Royal Regatta, pending funding. Last year, Harvard’s first freshman boat won the Temple Challenge Cup. But, as a significant number of rowers from that boat now row in the second varsity boat, the 2V is not eligible to race for the Temple, though this year’s freshmen are. The 2V could race for the Ladies’ Challenge Plate, which Harvard won in 1998, or could split into fours and enter another event.

“We’d want to enter an event where we’d be highly competitive,” Riffelmacher said. “We wouldn’t want to go and lose in the first round.”

Harvard’s 3V boat suffered its first loss of the season to fellow 3V competition as the Badgers won in 6:02.85. The Crimson posted a time of 6:05.54 while Cornell finished third in 6:07.8.

Harvard’s second freshman eight finished in fourth place in 6:16.05 while Navy won the race in 6:10.04. Princeton and Cornell finished fourth and fifth respectively.

Though the school year is coming to an end, the season for Harvard and Radcliffe rowers continues. For the Crimson heavyweights, the nation’s oldest intercollegiate event looms in the horizon—the Harvard-Yale regatta, to be raced for the 137th time on June 8th.

Harvard will not have a chance to race Wisconsin again, nor will it test its speed against Berkeley or Washington, the other top crews in the country. The opportunity would come at the IRAs, a championship regatta that begins on May 30. Harvard will already be training at Red Top—the Yale boathouse—as the Crimon faces the longest crew race in the nation, with a four-mile course in the varsity event.

“We’ve got one more race to focus on,” Mallinson said. “No matter how disappointed anyone is not to get another race against these guys, I don’t think anyone would give up racing Yale,” Mallinson said.